Our Personal Injury Resources Collection

During the past few years we did our best to give you the best and most useful information for your case. The idea was to create a knowledge base that will be split in categories. We developed 3 main categories up until now: Personal injury, Car accident and ”Other”.

Today we’ll mention some of the articles from our Personal Injury knowledge base category. The goal is to provide you many paths so that you can access our personal injury resources collection.

THE GAP IN MEDICAL TREATMENT AFTER A CAR ACCIDENT

There are two types of gaps in treatment. One is the gap between when you got in the accident, and when you first start treating for the injuries from that same accident.

WHAT PURPOSE DO AUTHORISATIONS SERVE?

Today’s topic is going to be authorisations. What purpose do authorisations serve? In all of our cases, in our car accident cases, we will need to order medical records and bills. I can’t just call the hospital or the doctor up and say: Hey doc? Did you saw Jane Doe for the accident? Shot me over her medical records and bills. They gonna be looking at me like: Are you crazy?

DOG BITE LAW IN MISSOURI

Even, most of our cases are car accidents and any personal injury lawyer here in the St.Louis area. If they want to be honest with you, they will tell you that most of there are car accidents. We also handle injuries caused by dogs.

PERSONAL INJURY LAWSUIT FILING

You have five years from the day of the accident to file a car accident lawsuit here in Missouri. That’s called the statute of limitations. It’s very liberal, to be honest with you, you have enough time to decide whether or not a lawsuit is the right option for you. But, once we decide to that, it’s usually we were not able to reach a settlement with the insurance company, or defendant driver, for whatever reason, and we are filing a lawsuit.

TIMELINE OF A PERSONAL INJURY

Today we are going to talk a little bit about all phases that go into a car accident lawsuit. In this video, I’m going to just generally talk about all of them. And then in subsequent videos, I’ll try to go a little bit deeper into each one of those sections. Every time I sit down with my client, my stance is counted on being with me for the next six months to a year. If we’re able to resolve this as a claim, and if not then we’re going to litigate. And then count on being with me between year or two. So, the timeline of a personal injury…

HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO FILE A LAWSUIT OF PERSONAL INJURY CLAIM AFTER A CAR ACCIDENT?

This is kind of tricky question because it depends who you really are and who claim is against.
For the purposes of this question, let’s assume you are not a minor and this claim is not against the governmental organization.
So, it’s a straight rear-end car accident collision.

Then the answer is, you have 5 years after the car accident to file a lawsuit. That’s called the statute of limitations, here in Missouri. If you don’t do anything within those 5 years, you will be forever barred. The reason for that is, in Missouri, it’s actually very liberal, other states have much shorter statute of limitations of one, two or three years for these car accident claims and lawsuits.

COLLATERAL SOURCE RULE IN MISSOURI

To explain it I’m gonna give you a few scenarios. Then you can kind of see how that rule has weakened personal injury car accident claims. And the injured parties right of recovery. Back in the 90s before 2005. The jury in Missouri was allowed to hear the actual amount billed for a medical bill from the hospital.

Let’s assume the medical bill from a hospital was $10.000. The person had health insurance, there were discounts and then the health insurance paid only let’s say $2000. Back in the day, before 2005 the jury in Missouri was allowed to hear that the actual amount of damages was $10.000 dollars for those bills.

MEDICAL PAYMENTS COVERAGE AFTER CAR ACCIDENT

One of the most common injury cases that we handle here at the office is car accident cases, or truck accident cases, or motorcycle cases. And inevitably every time an accident happens, there are large amounts of medical bills that need to be covered. And if you have med-pay or medical payments coverage under your own policy, that is a good thing.

STRAIN OF MEDICAL BILLS AFTER A CAR ACCIDENT

One of the biggest issues that we deal with on behalf of our clients, or medical bills after a car accident.

They can be life-changing because those medical bills can go up pretty quickly, a couple of days stay at the hospital can be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars range and it’s scary. It is scary. A lot of my clients ask me well what are my options how can I get rid of this?